Go away Disa

I got to a computer this morning and checked my email and found that Disa had left 10 SPAM comments on this blog. First of all, your comments have all been deleted. Second, you have been reported to Blogger. Thanks to this person who left a bunch of jibberish with the word 'sex' repeated several times, I have had to start using word verification again. I'm sorry to my regular followers that hate it but I have no choice. I also decided to enable comment moderation on my older posts since those are the ones she decided to leave her trash on. I hope MY people here are all doing well. I miss you so much and will be back as soon as possible. I love y'all!

It's been a day and a half.....for several months

Hey guys. How are you? I hope well...

Most of you know that we've been having quite the roller coaster ride lately (if you didn't know that you must be new here..). I wouldn't exactly call it fun but it's been a learning experience. Mainly I've been learning things about myself. Some of it I don't like (I don't live with people well...it makes me not like them and that makes me sad) but mostly I'm pretty proud of myself for me. I could very easily be a bitter person. I'm proud of the fact that I'm not.

I need to interject a note to my friend Coco here: I got your long email and I was going to write you back but something messed up and I lost it :( Sometimes I hate my computer. I wanted you to know I got it though and thank you for sharing you with me ♥ I love ya girl.

Speaking of Coco, I received an award from her! Yay! Y'all know I LOOOOOOVVVEEE awards!! She gave me the Kreative Blogger award :-D

Sooooo....

Of course I hit another roadblock...I'm getting very tired of them. If When life gets back to normal I'm going to write up a list of everything I feel like I've lost over the last few months. It's been a lot.

The day I was writing this Tammy's power got turned off. Yes, unfortunately we are once again living with no electricity. It's not good. I'm not happy :( Maybe it'll be back on NEXT WEEK (ugh) and I can properly thank Coco for my award. For now, thank you sweetie. It made me so happy. We spent the night with Tim's son last night and I am borrowing his laptop to finish this post and check my email etc.

I just don't know how much more I can take. Am I being tested? If so I don't know how well I'm doing. I guess I'll see y'all when I can :(

Our Cin ♥

As you know from my last post, I lost a very dear friend on the 9th. I wasn't the only one that lost her. So many of us loved Cindie just as she loved so many. She's really been all that's been on my mind the last few days. Her obituary came out today and I wanted to share it with y'all. I had finally decided that I was ready to post it and then our (Cindie's, mine, many others) friend Angela sent me a beautiful tribute that she wrote. She said I could alter it any way I needed to but I decided to leave it just the way she wrote it. She wrote it very well in my eyes ♥ Cindie would be proud of her.

From The Daily Tribune News, Cartersville, Georgia:

Cynthia Jo "Cindy" Wilson

Monday, Sep 14, 2009

Cynthia Jo "Cindy" Wilson, 40, of Davis Drive, Cartersville, passed away Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2009, following a lengthy illness.

Mrs. Wilson was born June 13, 1969, in Piqua, Ohio, the daughter of the late Charles W. and Betty J. Morrison, was formerly employed at Cracker Barrel and was of the Baptist faith.

Cindy was a very spiritual person, who lived life to the fullest. Her greatest achievement was being the mother of six children. She was a wonderful mother, daughter, sister and grandmother, had a past career in radio and a love of writing poetry and singing.

She was preceded in death by her parents and her husband, Randy Allen Wilson Sr.

Surviving are her children, Randy Wilson Jr. of Centre, Ala., Matthew Wilson, Christina Wilson, Courtney Wilson, Jacob Wilson and Ashley Rice, all of Cartersville; four grandchildren; a sister, Connie Morrison; her fiancé, Glen Edward Rice Jr.; and several nieces and nephews.

A memorial services to celebrate her life will be held at a later day and time.

In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to the American Lung Association.

Owen Funeral Home, 12 Collins Drive, Cartersville, is in charge of the arrangements.

From Angela ♥:

DEDICATION TO CINDIE
About 2 and a half yrs ago i walked into a chat line with the intention on making some new friends and changing some things in
my life. I had no idea that my life would be touched as it was by the frienships ive made since that day..
I entered the cyber world they call airg and made some amazing friends. Cindie wilson was one of those women. My 1st day in that
room she and one other person was the 1st ones to speak to me, and accept me for who i am. we talked daily and created a bond and
friendship that most only dream of. She was the most amazing,funny,loving,caring,humourous person... she always knew how to make
me laugh on days all i wanted to do was cry... she had such a soft side that made it so easy for anyone to talk to.
We would both have times that we would laugh, stress, cry, and just need to relive some anger, and on those times the airg world
was our battle ground and no one could get in the way of our path.. between her and i and all our other loyal and amazing friends
that we made there it was all us.. this was a place where we could meet and talk bout our days and just say hello...
She would always call me her beautiful ang as i would call her my gorgious and wonderful cin... Cin was an amazing woman that
you couldnt hold her down and she was loyal to the ppl she loved and showed her thankfulness and love back. Her and i have talked
about so much including the good times and the bad times,and we would always make each other laugh at some point no matter how bad
it was even if it was our lil joke bout pull ur hair back ang, get ur baggy jeans,steel toes,and bby t on, its time..
I want to take this oppertunity to say Cindie we all love u dearly and even tho ur not physically here WE can feel your
presence and i know ur looking down on all of us to this day, making sure were behaving, doing right,and just watching over us
smiling as we reflect on the good memories you have created in our lives. This is for u an amazing woman that fights and loves un
conditionally.. You have touched all of our lives to un imaginable heights, and you will NEVER be forgotten as you live in our
hearts,souls,and minds 4 ever!! We love u and miss u..

R.I.P. My Cindie Angel

Once upon a time, 6 years ago, a beautiful Angel came into my life. We loved each other, hated each other, laughed together, cried together, fought like tigers, told each other our deepest, darkest fears and experiences, bragged about our beautiful children to each other, her six and my four, shared silly pictures and jokes, talked about anything that came into our minds and became more than just friends. She was my sister from a different mister ♥ I always called her that and she'd always laugh and say her mister was prettier than mine. I can't believe she's gone. It hasn't completely gotten all the way to that part of my brain that believes certain things as a fact. We're all going to get together some time next week and have a friends-who-Cindie-made-family memorial for her. (I'm kind of stuck here.) I can't believe she's gone. She truly was an angel. A person put here on Earth that made everyone whose life she touched better for her having touched it. She died rather unexpectedly but not completely unexpectedly. She's suffered for several years with emphysema. I'm so grateful that she doesn't hurt anymore and at the same time I feel like being completely selfish and having her here. I would do anything to have her here for even one more day so that I could try to explain to her just how much I love her. I told her I loved her the last time we spoke but it's not enough. It could never be enough. I loved her completely. I will miss her terribly. Life will never be the same without her. Rest in peace our Cin, Cindie, Cindie Lou Who, Jaded Poet, Cindie Angel. Love you so much.

Cindie Wilson
June 13, 1969 - September 9, 2009
You will be forever missed ♥

Stone Mountain/ Labor Day Laser Show

Our nephew Grant came to spend Labor Day weekend with his Grandma and she decided he needed to do something special while he was here so we loaded up the car with Grandma, Grant, our niece Shyanne, Tim and I and we headed to Stone Mountain for the laser light show. It was the first time I'd ever been and I'm pretty sure the first time Grant had been also. We had a really good time and I thought I'd share some of the pictures with you today.

Grant & Shyanne on the way....

There were LOTS of people!

We got there about an hour before the show started and patience was wearing thin LOL Here's Grant right before dark...

Yay! It finally got dark!!

Shyanne loved her light up necklace!

We tried to get video of the actual laser show but it didn't show up :( We did get a good video of the spectacular fireworks though...and it wouldn't upload :@ maybe I can get it to work here later...

We had a really good time! Now I want to go for the 4th of July :) I'm FINALLY feeling better...I just have a cough left from my WEEKS of flu :( Hopefully I'll be back here tomorrow with a regular post. Have a great day everyone ♥

I wrote this post the day before yesterday and was waiting on the video to upload before I published it but it wouldn't upload. Then yesterday my very dear friend Cindie passed away. She was my angel. I'm not doing very well with it. My heart is broken. I'll be back later today or tomorrow to write a post about her. I will always love her.

Ugh...go away flu :@

I've been pretty sick for going on two weeks now. I finally decided it's the flu. Honestly, it's probably just a cold but because of my Grave's Disease it's not going away. It seems a little better today but I still have the worst body aches and a deep, deep cough. Ugh. I'm going back to bed now....

Before I go, I'd like to send a HUGE HUG Jenners way. Her father passed away on the 22nd and I found out this morning :( I am SO sorry for your loss sweetie. Let me know if there's anything I can do...you are in my prayers. I love you. ♥

One word

My friend Deb over at Ladybug from Texas sent a little questionnaire to my email and I thought I'd use that as my post today :)

USING ONLY ONE WORD! It's not as easy as you might think! Copy and change the answers to suit you and pass it on. It's really hard to only use one word answers.

1. Where is your cell phone? NOWHERE

2. Birth order? FIRST

3. Last thing you ate? SANDWICH

4. Your mother? SILLY

5. Your father? GONE ♥

6. Your favorite? COWS

7. Your dream last night? CRAZY

8. Your favorite drink? COFFEE

9. Your dream/goal? LIVE

10. What room you are in? BEDROOM

11. Your hobby? ART

12. Your fear? LOSS

13. Where do you want to be in 6 years? ALIVE

14. Where were you last night? MAMA'S

15. Something that you aren't? MEAN

16. Muffins? YES

17. Wish list item? HOME

18. Where you grew up? EVERYWHERE

19. Last thing you did? SMOKED :(

20. What are you wearing? CLOTHES...

21. Your TV? LOUD

22. Your pets? WEIRD

23. Friends? LOVE

24. Your life? PAUSED

25. Your mood? EXCITED

26. Missing someone? LOTS

27. Car? BROKEN

28. Something you're not wearing? SHOES

29. Your favorite store? WALMART

30. Your favorite color? GREEN

33. When is the last time you laughed? EARLIER

34. Last time you cried? YESTERDAY

35. Who will resend this? UMMMM

36. One place that I go to over and over? KITCHEN

I'm going to try again

I've sure missed being here but I've been so depressed lately that I really didn't want to post my whines everyday. Seriously. I am not happy. I know my blog is called Happy at Home but I DON'T HAVE A HOME. Yes, I have a roof over my head. It's just not mine. We've lived in one room for over a month now. That's not cool to me. I haven't lived with anyone besides my spouse and my children since I was 17 years old. I wrote a very long post the other day detailing what was wrong with me right now but then I didn't feel like I could post it because I talked about several people that visit me here and how THEY are making me unhappy. Being the person I am I didn't want to make them feel badly because of it. Isn't that crazy? I'm super unhappy because of other people but I don't want to make those people unhappy in return. Ugh.

Anyway, I decided that I had to get back to my writing because that IS something that makes me happy. So I'm going to try to just forget all the things that are bothering me and live as normal as possible. I am going to catch you up on a few things....

The 18th of August was my Tim's birthday. We had a nice quiet day. We went to his momma's house for cake and ice cream and I made a little video of it which I'm going to share with you. Let me just warn you I'm not as good as making videos as I am taking pictures LOL

His momma made the cake. She said it was ugly but Tim really liked it (so did I) plus it was super delicious!

It was just the three of us but we really did enjoy ourselves. Here's Tim & his momma...

And me & Tim...

He was also very happy that we got to see our granddaughter Alexis for his birthday. Isn't she beautiful!


Then Poppa & Alexis were worn out and took a little nap (this is actually one of my very favorite pictures)

In other news, our hard drive crashed about a week before Tim's birthday. Blah that was awful. We lost ALL 5000+ pictures we had, almost 2000 songs and all of my recipes :( Totally sad. We're trying to get them off the dead hard drive and (obviously) we have a new hard drive now but we're starting from scratch. Sooooo that means I won't be able to participate in most of my meme's for a bit. At least until I get some more pictures taken. I had so many I wanted to share with y'all too. It makes me sad.

So I hope all of you are doing well and I'll be back tomorrow if all goes well. I love y'all! ♥

Not feeling myself...

Hey guys...sorry I came back and then kinda left again. I just haven't been feeling myself the last few days. As most of you know it's been a long road for us the last several months. I've got a whole lot going on and I'm not enjoying most of it but for the time being I can't really put it into words. I could I guess, if I really tried, but honestly I'm too tired. This has been a very stressful time for me and it's not quite over. I'll try to be here tomorrow but I don't know if I will be. I might post on my cookbook because that doesn't really require me to think much. I hope y'all are doing ok. See you soon ♥

Happy Birthday Coco!

Hey guys it's my friend Coco's Birthday!!! I just love Coco! She is one of those people that I just connected with right away (don't you love it when that happens? I sure do ♥) and I feel like she's my sister! If you have a moment, I'm sure she would appreciate a Happy Birthday message....I know I sure did when all you wonderful people left them for me :D Coco, I hope you have the most wonderful birthday ever! I love you girl!

Click here to visit Coco and wish her a Happy, Happy Birthday ♥

Hooray for Saturday! - You're never too old for cartoons

It's Saturday which means it's time for my meme which celebrates silliness. Click here if you'd like the details and please join me!

P.S. You may notice that I gave up on Mr. Linky. It didn't work the way I paid for it to work so I've decided to try out MckLinky :) Happy Saturday everyone ♥

Friday High Five - August 6, 2009

Well it's Friday (Woohoo!!!) so that means I get to play! Angela hosts Friday High Five each week. It's a super simple game :) You just post any 5 things that you want to share. Be sure to visit Angela's Adventures and Minor Mishaps for more great Friday High Five posts!

As most of you know, yesterday was my birthday :D ♥ I had the best day!! Everybody made me feel so special and loved (and that includes all of you wonderful people from here in blogland) and I thought I would share my day with you for this Friday High Five post...

5. My birthday started off with me being awakened at midnight; first by Tim telling me Happy Birthday then by my daughter sending me a Happy Birthday Mommy text ♥ I thought that was awesome!

4. I was surprised by Tim's momma, my sister-in-law Gina and my brother-in-law Mike with dinner, cake, ice cream and the most wonderful homemade card I've ever received. I'll keep it FOREVER!!

3. I'm usually a pie girl but my cake was soooooo delicious and very pretty too :) I got 4 pink candles (40) and two yellow (2) for a total of 42 LOL! Isn't it pretty? It was delicious too!!

2. Because of my Graves Disease and what it does to my body (and how it makes me look) I normally HATE to have my picture taken (that includes videos) but I decided I could handle it this time because they made me so very happy. So here they are singing to me while I blow out my candles ♥

1. My night ended on a sad note though...I found out that one of my all time favorite writers/directors John Hughes passed away from a heart attack at the age of 59 while he was walking down the street in Manhattan. I wrote about it on my Crazy Life blog and you can click here to read it if you'd like.

That wraps up the 5 things I wanted to share with you about August 6, 2009. I hope you all have a great Friday!! ♥

Not blogging today....

Just thought I'd stop by and tell y'all hi and thank you to those that sent birthday wishes my way ♥ It really made me feel special! As you may have guessed from my previous statement, today is my 42nd Birthday (where did all those years go?) so I'm taking the day off.... I know I just got back to blogging regularly but I figure I can skip this one day :D See y'all tomorrow! I love ya!

Outdoor Wednesday -- Mrs. V's Camphouse & A very determined fly

It's Outdoor Wednesday! Susan hosts Outdoor Wednesday each week. If you'd like to find out how to participate too you can click here. Be sure to visit A Southern Daydreamer for more great Outdoor Wednesday posts!

One of my favorite people in Texas (besides my family) is Mrs. V. We would go out to her camphouse to clean & swim (that was the best part) and one day I remembered to take my camera. The first part of my Outdoor Wednesday pictures are from her house. The second half are of a very determined little fly or bee (I can't tell for sure what it was) that just knew my wind chimes would make a good home for him. :) I hope you enjoy! Happy Outdoor Wednesday everyone ♥

Happy Birthday Katdish!

Katdish over at Hey look, a chicken! is having a birthday today! I hope you have a great one Katdish!! Y'all get over there and tell her I said so! LOL Truly, I hope you have a nice, quiet, drama-free birthday and that you get everything you want!

Sister's Day ♥

My friend Angela over at Angela's Adventures and Minor Mishaps (you can visit her by clicking on her neat new button above) wants to remind us all about Sister's Day. According to her it was August 2nd (Hallmark says it's August 7th) but no matter what day it's on, it's a great time to remember your loved ones.

My sister Pammie is my only blood-sister. I have 2 step-sisters and Tim has several sisters but for a long time it was just me and Pammie. She's one of the coolest people you'd ever want to meet (and she can drive me absolutely crazy too lol you know I love ya sissy). We are 16 months apart to the day (my birthday is August 6,1967 and hers is December 6, 1968) and have always been very close. She'll go out of her way to help everyone and always has a smile. Her laugh is so contagious that it's impossible to hear it without laughing with her. All in all, she rocks! So Happy Sisters Day Pammie! I love ya ♥

Now tell us all about YOUR sister(s) and then get on over to Angela's to link up so everyone can see your post! (Remember, just click the button at the top of this post :-D)